Time is the author of authors.
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.
Nothing is terrible except fear itself.
God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.